Council Bluffs Iowa Nonpareil (Newspaper) - October 9, 1943, Council Bluffs, Iowa COUNCIL ESTABLISHED IN 1651 EVERY VOL 282 COUNCIL BLUFFS SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 9 1943 PRICE 3 CENTS RAF Bombers Hit Hanover in Strength Climaxes Day of Great Activity Over Continental Europe LONDON bombers hit tlie German rubber turing center of Hanover In groat strength Friday while n smaller gavo tho seaport of Bremen Its second pounding in 24 hours and attacked Berlin and targets In tho Ruhr the British air ministry announced Saturday Tho raids climaxed a day ot in- tense aerial activity and nary showed that the at- tacks wore concentrated ono bombers to return from missions Announcing Bremen as tho got of bombers DNB In a Berlin broadcast also mild that Hanover Gorman rubber center of half a million population also was raided in tho second heavy KAF blow there within two weeks last time tho British nnd the teamed up for a attack within a 24-hour period was Oct 4 when tho ered tho Frankfurt In daylight British em hopped on the same that night Tho said that re- ports on Filday night's terror Indicated that 23 British craft wero shot down In a flaming air buttle over many fighters weie knocked down Friday by American bombers and boating their way to en and through fierce op- position which returning filers Saturday Included small loaded rocket pianos Thirty bombers wore lost from the forco of Flying and Liberators which blasted tho Stukn plant at Bremen and submarine at nearby of tho bolts which provided cover to tho targets also failed to return Tho that particularly Hoavy destruction resulted from raids toll of 142 planes wan tho heaviest of and was exceeded only In twin raid on and furt Aug 17 when 807 Avoro shot down Of bag tho heavy bombers accounted for The Thunderbolts shot down tho re- maining 12 There was no Indication In the preliminary reports of raid us to portion of tho heavy American wore tho result oE the new or how many wore victims of flak from ground batteries or fight fire Tho Ions was more than halt that by the British In eight days of Intensive activity over Munich and Stuttgart In li KAF loll wan M The American pilots said Hint tlak over the target was liuly Intense Fur half Hie trip lo the tarRol big bombers had the of fighter cover When the planes rone lo tho attack they bowl In al tempting to penetrate the screen It they ailed pilots said they launched tho small planes bearing KAF by nnd Dominion Spitfires In aerial attack on Goiman with an attack on Hrest Frame im- and port on the western tip of Brittany London had an for the fourth successive night but tho all clear was sounded shortly Bombs wore dropped at scattered points It wan announced nnd a small number of casualties ForN Cross strong of heavy bombers tlow deep Into Saturday to bomb tant targets in tit eastern inul oast it announced This deepest lion Into toilless trom liases up in KAF raid in great strength List on tho iciman rubber turning center of Hanover and si lessor raid on tho port of which American bombers had left In flames Friday Tho round trip from tho of London to cast would involve a flight of at leant 1 600 miles 1 Saturday's flight all tho way across Germany to oast Prussia and least 800 miles from the British havo can led the big bombers to 300 miles of tho Hussion lino U foreshadowed the day when blows from Britain may ba up with the vast ground front In Russia nnd provided quent to the feebleness of the effort to i alls air that down s imo by ono HEADS TEACHERS II Miss Laird of Sidney who was elected president of th Southwestern Iowa Teachers sociation succeeding H J Finn of Harlan Teacher's Meet Closes Friday Doudna Declares Needs of Education Unknown The southwest Iowa teachers who boon In the city for list two days at their con- vention folded their tents Friday and left for their homes Miss Laird of Sidney Is new president of the tion thu election Friday morning No ono ically knows Hie an- swer to tho educational needs of Hie present time but in tho forts of tho present time trillion on i few essentials ol cation Is bettor in- over wide of non- Edgar Doudna at the high school forum ot teachers coiv Doudna of board of regents of normal schools In Madison Wis urged n to the R's Education of today Is loo sugar coaled and In the long run the pupil is not he said At of tho 01 s based upon the teaching of In tho rural schools Wagner the importance of applying the courses of study to seasons of the year Miss Wagner wan a reading con- nnd specialist for Scott and company She lias written stories and articles in tho Juvenile field At the ent time she is conducting work fur the DCS public library Miss Wagner stressed the noces sity of touching In n ner that created an Interest for the pupils In their present roundings Tin Putnam Named to District Office Charles K Putnam of Bluffs w as one ol lour district ra Honing officers named Saturday a by K Kcl ton the men will act as between the local boards and the of- Putnam will ot- at tho Council ration board Your I In Axis Lose Planes in Mediterranean War K D The campaign that began In Noi th Africa last November coal tlic axis more than pianos up to Oct 1 allied headquarters said Saturday Of that number wore de- In the air Nearly mostly wrecked hy bombing wore found on axis airfields Tho number of enemy planes on fields occupied on the Italian mainland has mounted to 880 than GOU were found in Tunisia and more than in The total does not include pianos liy bombing in fields still hold bv the Ioniums Governors fo Resume Perennial Classic in Cotton Picking Contest RALEIGH N C was u new twist today to that perennial what did thu governor of North Carolina say to the governor of South lina Said Gov J M Broughton OK North Carolina to Gov D Johnston of South Let's pick cotton and I bet I can pick more than you can Answering the challenge Gov Johnston Governor I'll pick cotton with you at any time at nny place for just as long as you want to out that Johnston had the advantage ot having grown up I eotton try Hut lit Carolina governor has been brushing up on hid technique lately by Ing cotton ul tho stale tent farm near here Nn date has been hot for contest Your Tin Destroyers Blast Jap Task Force Three Ships Sunk Two Others Damaged ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THK SOUTHWEST Iff An outnumbered forco of United States destroyers waylaying a Japanese tusk force bent on ig from tho central mons sank an enemy cruiser or heavy destroyer and at least two other in a tle The engagement In which ican lassos wero described as occurred shortly be- fore midnight Wednesday west of Volla Lavella island it first was reported Saturday by Gen Douglas Tho Japanese ships in throe groups were intercepted by a forco commanded by Capt Frank son Walker of Alabama while at- tempting either to pull off remnants still holding out tho Americans on or lo complete the tion of to the south Without waiting for ments Captain Walker ered his forces for battlo against tho first enemy group MacArthur's communique said gunfire exploded u light cruiser and ono destroyer u torpedo sank a second destroyer nnd two other destroyers badly mauled limped away south headquarters said u third stroyer probably sank and two or other were aged Tlie second Japanese group probably destroyers and tho third consisting of barges and small combatant craft suw at a ance tho flaming action then swung around nnd al high speed The losses increased to more than M the of warships tho Japanese have expended in the Solomons MacArthur ed his current offensive June 30 They also havo lost pianos more than BOO barges and uncounted of men Tho now enemy movo was an- by AUm William V For weeks American fliers and navy guns havo exacted a heavy toll of barges sneaking enemy troops from their baso of Vila on southern north to ville by way of Wake island another focal point In the Pacific war re- ported Friday night in a Tokio broadcast to have boon heavily at- tacked on two days by ships and planes Tin Reprimand Nazi Officers WITH THK BRITISH 8TH ARMY IN ITALY Oct De- An official notice found In after tho British 8th army bounced the Germans out of the severely manded Gorman officers for ar- ranging unnecessary duty tilps to luxury spots of Rome It cited tho deplorable case wherein nn infantry company sent four men to Rome to purchase two phone records Nazis Prepare to Take Over Entire Control of France LONDON Tension Inside Fiance mounted Satin clay as re- from both allied and axis indicated that tho mans had virtually completed plans to take over the government of tho entire country wore reported from nil of the a-i resistance to tho repressive measures of the conquerors In Paris Robert de radio spokesman assorted the Germans would take over if French j unable to subdue what he Radio Fiance Kioo n lo I polls trat Of i minis the country's government any clay now The Suks newspaper do Lausanne said in an article re- ported to tho office of war mation Saturday that the Vichy government Is gradually all its prerogatives in every and that rumors are growing more persistent that Premier Pierre Laval Intends shortly to leave the political scene The newspaper said in a dis- patch from Lyons France that the wore discreetly ening their controls over the French administration and Hint prossuic is being put on Marshal retain for of tho government to Soviets Blast Huge Wedges in Nazi Lines Widen Breaches in German Defense West of Dnieper River LONDON huge wedges into the 30-mile-clcep man defense zone west of the Dnieper river north and south of Kiev strong spearheads the red army havo hurled back fierce and entrenched themselves for what appeared to be a huge pincer movement aimed at enveloping tho great fortress city Moscow announced Saturday tho major breach in the German linen was carried out south of slav 00 miles below the Ukrainian capital It expected expansion of this wedge may collapse the whole front Carried out under tho cover of attack the enemy by complete prise Of almost equal importance was the storming of the German west bank defenses north of Kiev near the confluence of the Pripet and Dnieper rivers Here soviet advance guards were fanning out to the south in a drive evidently aimed at Kiev from the rear and other red army columns swooping up from tho south A third important red army hold on the west bank between and Dnepropetrovsk alio firmly established tho Moscow communique indicated and Russians wore repulsing counter- smashes In which the Germans hurled planes and men to no avail More than Germans fell in the fierce bridgehead battles viet airmen screening the Ings shot down 32 German planes in air combat high over the river Berlin broadcasts admitted marked accentuation of the sian operations on the west bank of the Dnieper and said red army spearheads wero probing for more crossings at other points Henry C Associated Progs correspondent m Moscow said in a dispatch that tho red army positions on the west bank were now regarded as secure Cassidy added that nobody was more surprised by the rod army's new offensive than the Russian people themselves and that its initial coupled with its strategic possibilities stimulated the hope that tho end of the war might soon be in sight Tho Moscow war bulletin also reported major battles far to tho north where it claimed troops were killed in soviet drives aimed at Vitebsk nnd the Latvian frontier On the Peninsula the last remnants of tho German suicide wore being mopped up the communique said and the western Caucasus was re- ported practically cleared of tho enemy West and south of captured No vel 70 miles from the Latvian der and 60 miles north of Vitebsk tho Russians wore fanning out in ever-widening circles Hero in two days they killed Germans took COO prisoners and scooped up hugo stores of enemy war gear The enemy tries in every sible way to stem tho advance of our troops but suffers tho communique said Germans Use Tanks in Effort fo Stop Reds MOSCOW com- manders threw a great weight of tanks and bombers into the battle of the Dnieper Saturday In an fort to prevent the Russians from clamping a pincers on the ian capital of Kiev from heads north and south of the gold domed city One of the most tremendous struggles of the whole war was raging near tho high west bank of tho river The Russians have steadily en- their bridgeheads north and south of Kiev and established a third farther south be- tween and petrovsk Little news came from the front nnd this meant only that great battles were being fought and that the climax was not yet Front Sine dispatches said the Germans hurried tanks artillery planes and men to the critical tors every hour through a gantlet of Russian guerrillas Red erg blasted away tions in full realization that at the moment traffic la the key to tory Every Indication was that the German general staff would do everything in its power Indicating the shifting of troops from other sectors to hold the Dnieper line Fully aware of the tactical tories they have won in their major crossings of the waterway in all Europe after the Volga and red army the darkness Friday night to move more into their bridgeheads Declares Martial Law Senate to Conduct Probe Into U S Lend-Lease Operations to Seat His Sheriff NEW ORLEANS An armed force of parish deputies decided not to resist a heavy convoy of state guardsmen sent into the parish Saturday by Gov Sam Jones to scat his op- sheriff Walter J Blaize under martial law Jones invoked martial law for Plaquemines parish to put down insurrection against law and order after a four months court fight with District Attorney der H Perez over possession of the sheriff's post Armed resistance leports said faded after officials of the parish were Informed martial law had been declared The controversy over the office grew out of the death last Juno of Sheriff L D and tho appointment of by Governor Jones to fill the post Yankee Bombers Hit Jap Targets Indo-China and Burma Points Blasted About 20 American bombers at- tacked Hanoi the capital of Indo- China Saturday morning and Uie population suffered losses the man radio said Saturday In a broadcast of Tokyo dispatches NEW DELHI most continuously since Thursday at Japanese positions in Burma American and RAF heavy bombers have loosed powerful explosives on key railway communications and supply dumps in the southern and southwestern sectors joint an- said Saturday American Liberator bombers launched the attacks Thursday by hitting with deadly accuracy at railway yards in on the railroad midway between Rangoon and Mandalay lations suffered heavy said the announcement joined in tho assault that same day by wearing direct hits on the ap preaches to the railway bridge six miles northeast of Hop in northern Burma Considerable destruction of tracks and roadbed resulted RAF joined in the Thursday attacks and followed them up through Friday by heavily damaging locomotives and rolling stock south of Mandalay and coastal craft along the southwest coast Friday night heavy RAF went into action over the railway yards at and ob- at Akyab one of Japan's supply bases Fires were left Ing in target areas and hits were scored in the center of way yards at Saguing WAF followed up the attacks today by dive bombing and buildings at on the river Neither the Americans nor the RAF suffered losses Tin Question Two in Triple Slaying Farm Hand and Girl Companion Held MERCER Pa police and Mercer county authorities Saturday questioned a farmhand and his girl companion In connection with a triple slaying at the Everett Wilson dairy farm near here District Attorney Edwin C Moon said the farmhand William was being held In the Mercer county jail on a murder charge and the girl Janice Graham 20 also employed on tho Wilson farm were arrested In a 0 farmhouse Friday night State Police Sgt Frank Morell admitted strangling Mrs Helen Wilson 46 wife of the dairyman and shotting her mother-in-law Mrs Catherine Wilson 76 and another farmhand Robert McKay 70 last Thursday Milligan quoted Morell as ing the Graham girl had no part in the slayings that he forced her to accompany him on his flight in McKay's automobile Sheriff Stuart M Hurland quoted Morell as I was chasing young steers all morning and just got didn't like them anyway I'm sorry about it now Guess I Just didn't know what I was ing But no use crying about it now Your Tin Jolson's Condition tetter NEW YORK Al Jolson stage and screen comedian ing from pneumonia since day a little better Saturday his physician Dr Julius J Hertz reported WASHINGTON P ate's two-day private review of what's going on at the war fronts spawned Saturday an tion of operations and boded ill for President Roosevelt's request for an additional 000 appropriation to tho of war information OWI In a cantankerous mood after nearly hours wrangling behind cloned doors Friday members showed a pressing to look into tho operation of some agencies that were criticized roundly by five senators who In- the war theaters One of the louring senators served notice that is in line for a thorough going-over by the man war investigating committee on which ho serves charged there had been instances of mismanagement citing trucks sent to Australian civilians while only were left for use of civilians in this country said the Truman group also is interested in the president's request for more funds for overseas operations of tho subject at which tho house appropriations committee will have the first crack Senator Lodge told the senate he felt some OWI propaganda in foreign lands was childish anil Lodge were In sharp disagreement over Lodge's statement that a million American lives could be saved if Russia gave the allies air bases in Siberia With absent led the attack in Friday's secret meeting on this statement ing it was unfortunate and curate said Gen George C army chief of staff nd suggested nt a conference with the tourists that the Siberian bases not be mentioned Indian Summer to Continue Southwestern Iowa will continue to bask in Indian summer over the week-end tho weather bureau said Saturday Little change Is ex- in temperatures Low hero Saturday was 45 de- grees Friday's high was 78 The Missouri river stage Saturday was 6.2 feet Normal river stage is 7.13 feet Yon i Tin World Bank Plan Pleases Portugal Morgenthau Confirms London Statement WASHINGTON UP A U S treasury proposal for a world bank to help ravaged lands get on their feet was hailed in at least one capital Saturday as another move toward insuring peace The banking plan was widely published in the British press day night confirming what ury Secretary had beun reported as telling a secret congressional meeting earlier in the week Immediately from Lisbon neutral outlet for many fleeing this re- It is a colossal effort that only a powerful rich nation full of and capable of large scale initiative could The statement in the Lisbon newspaper Diario de added that peace would bo another war Just as dreadful and dangerous If victory should servo only to give satisfaction to plutocratic tites Its hand flashed by tho British picas the treasury made public the draft of principles for the proposed world bank The treasury authorized Hurry D White its expert to release tho text of the plan Emphasizing to a press ence what he termed the ly unofficial nature of the posal White said there no to interfere with private cap- ital but merely to supplement II in providing the funds necessary to rebuild lands and permit development of natural re- sources Declaring that many private In- took a nipping after the last war he expressed the opinion It would be difficult to coax thorn Into the foreign financial field again If private capital were he said this bank do any business Morgenthau was reported to have told the congressmen that the United States contribution to the bank would aggregate about and about Other nations would contribute their proportionate shares Your Tin Accuses U S Doctors of Shoddy Practice NEW YORK beth Kenny Australian nurse who devised a method of treating tylo paralysis was quoted by the Saturday as saying physicians In the United Stoles had administered the i treatments In shoddy fashion It takes at least two yearn to learn my she said In the interview in Australia it is a two-year course and here In the United States doctors look Into my concepts for as little aa one week and then consider they are experts Sister Kenny was quoted by the as saying that ing her three nnd a half yearn In the United States no one has com- learned technique and Umt has been a great sadness to me County Sixth in Ak Show Ribbons Sell for Good Prices at Omaha When results of tho club fat stock show were added up Friday lamie county contestants ranked sixth out of all counties from four states in the total number of bons won Twenty boys from southwest Iowa made Individual exhibits In the show with 28 baby beeves and two market In group awards the west group of five baby beeves won fourth the group Oj fords won fifth By Friday all their baby beeves were sold for prices from to per hundred weight Clifford Johnson county extension agent announced day morning Individual winners of bons were Goos Silver Keg club Hereford beef and Chambers Silver Keg Chester While burrow Red ribbon winners were neth Chambers market barrow Jerry O'Connor N 13 M club Hereford baby beef Smith Silver Keg club two Hereford baby beeves Harvey Moss Silver Keg club shorthorn baby beef Goos Silver Keg club Hereford baby Grant sce Silver Keg club baby beef Lynn N B M club Angus baby beef James Moss Silver Keg club Angus baby beef Oswald Schmidt Silver Keg club two Hereford baby beeves Jack N B M club Hereford baby beef Winning white ribbons were Kenneth Chambers two market barrows Joe Grote jr N B M club Angus baby beef Kenneth Chambers Angus baby beef mcr Silver Keg club Angus baby beef Rudolph Sunder man Silver Keg club Angus baby boot Fred Miller Silver Keg club Hereford baby beef Jack Groto N B M club Hereford baby beef Robert N B M club Hereford baby beef and Grant four market Vout Tin Missouri Family Making a Record in the War Effort ST LOUIS Uncle Sam ever awards medals to civilians for their war effort he can save it batch for Mr and Mrs Richard Schntz of Sullivan Mo Parents of 15 children the couple has already given three sons to the armed service On top of Hint are doing their In keeping up the production front by working in a St Louts tions the farm continues to produce for the fighting and home Last month when Farmer 52 and his wife went to work they decided It was too much to drive dally from Sul to St Louis They turned over farm operations to Louis 18 the oldest child at home Little Gertrude 11 keeps house Mr and Schulz return home every week-end to check on the children and do what work Is necessary She does tho washing ironing and When Schatz gets through with the accumulated heavier farm chores he pitches in and helps Mrs Senate Your Tin Renews Jew Purge NEW YORK of war Information reported Saturday the agency had broadcast a dispatch that isli measures voided by govern mont of Premier Plelro Badogllo have been promulgated anew by Benllo national cist government Allies Move Up in Sea of Mud and Rain Fifth Army Takes Important Transport Center of Caserta By Associated Press War Patrols forced a crossing on flooded Volturno river and tho main of two allied armies advanced two to three miles In rain and clinging mud on the Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts of Italy headquarters In Algiers announced Saturday Tho American 5th army ing up this region between Naples and the Volturno captured tho communications center of 16 miles north of the The Volturno crossing placed the Americans less than 100 miles short of Rome whom dis- patches said at intervals cannon fire can bo heard from the south The mud on fronts of both armies was declared as deep aa that of Flanders Hints of another Ing movement on the Adriatic came from the Gorman radio at Paris which said a considerable American naval force had shelled mm positions near 15 miles north of mid 35 low the port of Pescara whence a lateral lends Italy to Homo The Germans said 20 allied divisions driving against their forco In south Italy which the allies estimated at six divisions The fighting at was described as violent but as early as Wednesday British had bridged the river in six hours of intense Fighting desperately to prevent the 8th army from outflanking thorn throughout central Italy the mans put yet another armored di- vision into tlie muddy battle Heavy had turned and streams into floods which hampered land operations The northwest African air again supported operations in the Aegean sea by bombing Greece Crete and Rhodes Fires ex- plosions leaped from the bombed and seven challenging enemy planes were destroyed Road junctions and bridges at north of Naples also were pounded fattens Escape of Germans My AJACCIO Corsica of troops from Corsica during the recent campaign re- from the defection of Italian troops fully equipped with tanks and guns who failed to hold vital ridges against few German patrols That Is the conclusion this arrived nt after Ing the campaign with American and French officers who took part In the fight It not dissipated by with the themselves The were told Friday by Gen that France would be freed as Corsica and that all must give way to tho cross of Lorraine Standing In the shadow of tRo Bonaparte memorial In named the fighting French leader received the enthusiastic cheers of the oan population after a rapid two- Jay of the Island later told a press con- ference that the Italians had been useless In helping to liberate Cor- sica and said they must surrender ail their military equipment to the French before leaving the They have signed an armistice with the allies nut not with declared Anyway they are not fighting us Tin The Weather By the U S Weather Bureau Council Bluffs and No Important temperature change Saturday night and Sunday fore- noon Cooler Saturday and day forenoon No Important change In temperature Saturday night and Sunday forenoon No Important ature change Saturday or day night Hourly a m a m M a ra a m 62 a m a m flS a m p m 73 a m a m p m Humidity Wet 63 Dry Wind 4 per hour Maximum temperature In last M 78 al p m day Minimum temperature In 24 46 degrees at a m Total 20.87 ToUl deficiency 3 43
